EP3416892B1 - Dosing method and filling machine - Google Patents

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EP3416892B1
EP3416892B1 EP17716601.4A EP17716601A EP3416892B1 EP 3416892 B1 EP3416892 B1 EP 3416892B1 EP 17716601 A EP17716601 A EP 17716601A EP 3416892 B1 EP3416892 B1 EP 3416892B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/003—Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
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  • the present invention relates to methods and filling machines for dosing liquid products in containers and in particular it relates to a method and a filling machine for dosing a pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food liquid product in containers as phials, bottles, ampoules, vials or alike.
  • Measuring the weight is in fact necessary in order to reject out-of-spec containers from production, for example because they contain a quantity of product out of the tolerance range of permitted dosage, and/or to correct possible excesses or scarcity in the dose of the product.
  • the measuring of weight is used in the feedback checking of the dosing system in order to correct the dosed quantity of product and then obtain a new compliant containers.
  • the weighing systems comprise in this case a first weighing station, upstream of the filling station, which measures the weight of empty containers (tare), and a second weighing station, downstream of the filling station, which measures the weight of the filled containers (gross weight).
  • the difference between the gross weight and the tare, measured and memorised for each container by a machine control unit, enables said control unit to calculate the net weight of the dosed product.
  • the weighing apparatuses of the weighing stations which perform such type of direct measure comprise electronic scales comprising measuring or load cells, on which containers must be positioned for a proper time lapse.
  • the measuring of the weight can be partial, of statistical type, that is carried out on a sample of containers randomly chosen, or of total type, that is carried out on all the containers filled in the packaging machine (so called 100% weight check).
  • Perturbations comprise vibrations, accelerations due to mechanisms and moving parts of the machine and interferences caused by flows, currents and turbulences of the air within a filling machine workload.
  • WO 2005/096776 A2 discloses a method and a filling machine in accordance with the preamble of claims 1, 6, 10 and 13.
  • One object of the present invention is improving the methods and the filling machines arranged for dosing a pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food liquid product in containers as phials, bottles, ampoules, vials or alike.
  • Another object is delivering a method and a filling machine which enable to check and maximize the filling process performances, in particular minimizing the number of filled containers to be rejected.
  • a further object is obtaining a method and a filling machine enabling to check in a precise and reliable way the doses of products delivered in the containers, without being influenced by interferences and perturbations caused by vibrations, accelerations, stresses, flows, currents and/or air turbulences created by mechanisms and/or operating means of the filling machine.
  • An additional further object is delivering a method and a filling machine enabling to detect in a precise and reliable way possible underdosed containers, that is containers containing a dose of product with a weight lower than the weight of a nominal dose of product.
  • a further object is still delivering a method and a filling machine able to carry out a weight check of total type, in other words carried out on all the filled containers, in a rapid and efficient way so as to check the quality and the performances of the executed filling process.
  • Another object is delivering a dosing system provided with devices for checking the doses of the product delivered in containers having extremely limited sizes and being cost-efficient.
  • a method for dosing according to claim 1 is provided.
  • a filling machine according to claim 10, respectively 13, is provided.
  • a dosing system 1 of a filling machine 50 arranged to fill containers 100, as phials, bottles, ampoules, vials or similar with doses of product 20, in liquid form, for instance a pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or food product.
  • the dosing system 1 comprises at least a dosing unit 2 able to deliver a dose of product 20 in the containers 100, a feed tank 3 to feed with the product to the dosing unit 2 by means of a first duct 4 and at least a delivery element 5 connected to the dosing unit 2 by means of a second duct 6 to deliver the doses of product 20 in the containers 100.
  • Each dose of product 20 comprises a pre-established quantity of product supplied by the dosing unit 2.
  • the delivery element 5 includes a nozzle fixed to a supporting element 7 of the filling machine 50 and able to deliver the doses of product 20 in sequence in the containers 100, that are moved along the filling machine 50 by a transport system 13 thereof, of the prior art type and not shown in detail in the figures.
  • the dosing system 1 includes a bubble sensor 10 associated with the first duct 4 or with the second duct 6 and arranged to detect the presence of possible gas bubbles 21 in the doses of products 20 which flow in the ducts 4, 6 and measure a volume of said gas bubbles 21.
  • Gas bubbles 21 may be air bubbles and/or bubbles of any gas, as for example nitrogen.
  • the ducts 4, 6 comprise respective flexible pipes made of plastic material, in particular of any one between PVC (polyvinylchloride), PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), PAEK (polyaryletherketones), PEEK (polyetheretherketone).
  • PVC polyvinylchloride
  • PTFE polytetrafluoroethylene
  • PAEK polyaryletherketones
  • PEEK polyetheretherketone
  • the bubble sensor 10 is connected to the second duct 6, arranged between the dosing unit 2 and the delivery element 5, in order to check the doses of product 20 exiting from the dosing unit 2 and verify whether they contain inner bubbles, gas micro-bubbles, foam.
  • the bubble sensor 10 may be associated with the first duct 4, inserted between the feed tank 3 and the dosing unit 2.
  • the bubble sensor 10 includes an ultrasound sensor, of the known type and commercially available, for example an ultrasound sensor Sonocheck ABD made by SonotecUltraschallsensorik Halle GmbH, that is able to detect in a liquid the presence of gas bubbles 21 having a minimum volume as small as 0.3 ⁇ l and to carry out the detection process in a precise and accurate way in a time lapse between 200 ms and 1 ms.
  • an ultrasound sensor Sonocheck ABD made by SonotecUltraschallsensorik Halle GmbH
  • the aforesaid ultrasound sensor 10 is further able to measure with accuracy and precision the volume of the single detected gas bubbles, having very small sizes too, until a minimum volume of 0.3 ⁇ l, so as to enable a processing and control unit 30 of the filling machine 50 to measure the volume of the gas bubbles 21 in each dose of product 20 and to calculate, on the basis of the volume of the gas bubbles 21 contained in a respective dose of product 20, an effective volume or quantity of product without gas bubbles 21 of the aforesaid dose of product 20.
  • the aforesaid sensor is not at all influenced by the environmental conditions in the filling machine. More precisely, the accuracy and the precision both in the gas bubbles detection and in the measure of their volume are not at all altered by perturbations and interferences of different kinds in the filling machine and typically comprising vibrations, accelerations generated by the mechanisms and the moving parts of the machine and interferences caused by flows, currents and turbulences of the air produced by laminar air flow and/or by pneumatic means of operative stations of the machine.
  • particular self-regulation precautions may be provided and implemented in the checking system of the bubble sensor 10 in order to take into consideration environmental conditions such as the pressure of the product in the ducts 4, 6, ambient temperature, elasticity of the flexible pipes of the ducts 4, 6, humidity in correspondence of the flexible pipe and of the bubble sensor 10. These precautions ensure the correct detection and measure of the volume of the gas bubbles in the different environmental conditions.
  • the bubble sensor 10 has particularly small sizes and comprises a seat 11 arranged to reversibly receive and block a portion of the flexible pipe of the second duct 6, in such a way as to check and analyse the doses of product 20 which flow in and through the pipe and, in particular, detect possible gas bubbles passing through the aforesaid portion.
  • the sizes of the seat 11 and of the bubble sensor 10 can be defined and selected as a function of the diameter of the flexible pipes of the ducts 4, 6 that is of the volume of the doses of product 20 to dose in each container 100.
  • the bubble sensor 10 can be implemented so that it is washable and/or sterilisable in the filling machine and/or suitable for use in sterile chambers or controlled-atmosphere environment.
  • the dosing system 1 may comprise a plurality of dosing units 2, each of which is associated with a respective bubble sensor 10.
  • the sensors 10 are mounted on the second ducts 6 of the respective dosing units 2.
  • the dosing unit 2 comprises a volumetric piston pump, of known type and not illustrated in detail, that withdraws the product out of the feed tank 3 and delivers defined doses, or volumes, of product 20 into the containers 100.
  • the piston pump 2 is fixed, for example in a reversible way, to a supporting base 8 of the filling machine 50 which also contains the driving and movement means of the inner piston of the pump.
  • the dosing system 1 may comprise other types of dosing units of known type as, for example, volumetric rotary pumps, peristaltic pumps, flow meter dosing apparatuses, time/pressure dosing apparatuses.
  • the filling machine 50 comprises, beside the above described dosing system 1 and the processing and control unit 30, at least a weighing station 16, arranged downstream of the dosing system 1 with respect to the advancement direction A and provided with at least a weight sensor 22 able to measure the weight of the containers 100 filled with the doses of products 20 by the dosing system 1.
  • a further weighing station may be provided upstream of the dosingsystem 1 to measure the empty containers 100 before they are filled with the doses of product 20.
  • the measure of the weight of the dosed product (net weight) is calculated by subtracting the empty container (tare) from the weight of the filled container (gross weight).
  • the filling machine 50 includes a feeding station 14 of the empty containers 100, which are moved by the transport system 13 along an advancement direction A towards the dosing system 1.
  • the filling machine further comprises an output station 18 to convey out of the filling machine 50 the aforesaid containers 100 and a rejecting station 15, of known type and not shown in detail in the Figures, able to reject out-of-spec containers 100' in that they have a weight measured by the weight sensor 22 out of a range of acceptable weights, that is filled with irregular doses of product 20.
  • the processing and control unit 30, that oversees the functioning of the whole filling machine 50, is set up to receive and process a weight signal from the weight sensor 22 and a bubbles signal from the bubble sensor 10, it is connected to said dosing unit 2 and set up to regulate the latter in order to modify the pre-established quantity of product supplied for each dose of product 20 as a function of a weight signal received from the weight sensor 22.
  • the processing and control unit 30 calibrates the dosing unit 2 in such a way as to increase the volume of product of each dose of product 20 in case the weight of containers100 measured by the weight sensor 22 is lower than the range of acceptable weights or reduces such quantity of product in case the weight of containers 100 is higher than the range of acceptable weights.
  • the processing and control unit 30 is further set up to inhibit the variation of the pre-established quantity of product supplied for each dose of product 20 as a function of the weight signal received by the weight sensor 22 in case the bubble sensor 20 detects a volume of gas bubbles 21 in the doses of products 20 lower than a pre-definite reference value.
  • the weight variation of containers 100 is caused by the presence of gas bubbles 21 in the doses of product 20 and not by a non-functioning or alteration in the functioning of the dosing unit 2 such as to require the processing and control unit 30 to regulate it.
  • the presence of gas bubbles 21 of limited size and volume in the product is indeed normally a temporary phenomenon which disappears during some dosing cycles of the dosing units 2.
  • the processing and control unit 30 is connected to the rejecting station 15 to reject the out-of-spec containers 100'.
  • a closing station 17 may be provided between the weighing station 16 and the output station 18 wherein the containers 100 filled with the doses of product 20 are closed (for example tightly).
  • the closing station 17, of known type and not shown in detail, comprises, for example in the case of phials for pharmaceutical use, proper means to insert a closing cap to the container and to apply and fix a blocking seal to the latter.
  • the transport system 13 moves the containers 100 along the advancement direction A through the following operative stations of the filling machine 50.
  • the rejecting station 15 is preferably disposed adjacent and downstream of the weighing station 16.
  • the rejected out-of-spec containers 100' can be directed to a collecting station 19 wherein the product dosed in them can be recovered.
  • out-of-spec containers 100' may be moved to a further dosing station of the filling machine or of another machine or specific apparatus wherein they are filled with the missing quantity of product.
  • the functioning of the filling machine 50 provides that the bubble sensor 10, that is connected for example to the flexible pipe of the second duct 6 connecting the dosing unit 2 to the respective delivering element 5, checks and analyses the doses of product 20 flowing through the aforesaid flexible pipe so as to detect the possible presence of gas bubbles or micro-bubbles 21, with minimum sizes as small as 0.3 ⁇ l, for example already contained in the product coming from the feed tank 3 or generated during the functioning of the dosing unit 2, for instance caused by the composition of the product itself, of the operative speed, etc.
  • the bubble sensor 10 also measures the volume of the gas bubbles 21 in each dose of product 20 and provides such information to the processing and control unit 30 which is thus able to calculate the effective volume of the product without gas bubbles 21 of the respective dose of product 20 delivered in a corresponding container 100.
  • the processing and control unit 30 which knows the density of the product, can calculate the effective weight of the dose of product 20 supplied in the respective container 100.
  • Such effective weight of the dose of product 20 in each container 100 - calculated on the basis of the measuring of the gas bubbles 21 carried out by the bubble sensor 10 - can be compared by the processing and control unit 30 to the weight of the aforesaid container 100 measured by the weight sensor 22 of the weighing station 16. Such comparison may allow to control the correct functioning of the bubble sensor 10 and/or of the weight sensor 22.
  • the minimum volume of 0.3 ⁇ l of the gas bubbles 21 detectable by the bubble sensor 10 corresponds to a weight of about 0.3 ⁇ g (with a specific volume of the liquid equal to about 1 cm 3 /g).
  • the bubble sensor 10 therefore has a reading resolution equal to 0.3 ⁇ g, much lower than the measuring resolution and precision of electronic scales usually employed to weight vials until 5 grams in the pharmaceutical packaging.
  • the nominal precision of these electronic scales is typically of 1-2 ⁇ g, however, due to internal ambient conditions of the filling machine during its functioning (perturbations and interferences of various kinds caused by vibrations, flows, currents and air turbulences, etc.) such precision falls to about 10-12 ⁇ g, that is two orders of magnitude lower with respect to the resolution of 0.3 ⁇ g of the bubble sensor 10.
  • the weighing station 16 measures through the weight sensor 22 the weight of the containers 100 filled by the dosing system 1.
  • the processing and control unit 30 provides to regulate the dosing unit 2 so as to modify the pre-established quantity of supplied product for each dose of product 20 according to the weight signal received by the sensor weight 22, that is according to the difference between the measured weight and the range of acceptable weights (underdosing or overdosing).
  • valve means 12 inserted in the second duct 6 and connecting the flow with the feed tank 3 by means of a third duct 9.
  • the valve means 12 are interposed between the bubble sensor 10 and the delivery element 5.
  • the valve means 12 are connected to the processing and control unit 30 and driven by the latter so as to deviate and convey the doses of product 20 exiting from the dosing unit 2 towards the feed tank 3, instead of towards the delivery element 5 in case the bubble sensor 20 detects a volume of gas bubbles 21 equal or higher than a predefined reference value in the doses of product 20.
  • the presence of a high number of gas bubbles 21, apart from determining relevant weight variations of the containers 100 (underdosing) which would lead to reject several dosed containers, indicates a temporary phenomenon within the product and destined to disappear over time by re-circulating the product until gas bubbles 21 disappear or reduce their volume (per dose of product) below the predefined reference value.
  • the dosing system 1 of the filling machine 50 of the invention it is thus possible to inhibit the filling of containers 100 preventing the production of out-of-spec containers 100' during the time necessary for the gas bubbles 21 to disappear or reduce their volume in the doses of product 20.
  • the processing and control unit 30 can activate the valve means 12 so as to deviate and convey the doses of product 20 exiting from the dosing unit 2 towards the delivery element 5 to restart the filling of the containers 100 with the doses of product 20.
  • the method of claim 1 for dosing a product in liquid form, in particular a pharmaceutical product, in containers (100) comprises:
  • the method may use the filling machine 50 and the dosing system 1 above described and shown in Figures 1 to 3 .
  • the method further provides rejecting out-of-spec containers 100' when they have a weight measured by the weight sensor 22 out of a range of acceptable weights.
  • the method provides checking the doses of product 20 by means of the bubble sensor 10 when they flow in a first duct 4, entering the dosing unit 2, or in a second duct 6, exiting from the dosing unit 2, which feeds a delivery element 5 of the doses of product 20 in the containers 100.
  • the method further provides measuring by means of the sensor means 10 a volume of each of said gas bubbles 21 detected in the doses of product 20 and calculating on the basis of said volume of gas bubbles 21 contained in a respective dose of product 20 an effective volume of product without gas bubbles 21 of the respective dose of product 20.
  • the method of claim 6 provides deviating and conveying towards the feed tank 3 the doses of product 20 transferred by the dosing unit 2 in order not to deliver into containers 100 the aforesaid doses of product 20 containing gas bubbles 21 in case the bubble sensor 20 detects a volume of gas bubbles 21 into the doses of product 20 equal to or higher than a predefined reference value.
  • the method and the filling machine of the invention it is therefore possible to detect in the out-of-spec containers 100' (underdosed), detected by the weight sensor 22 of the weighing station 16, the possible presence of gas bubbles 21 and measure their volume so as to enable the processing and control unit 30 to determine whether to regulate or calibrate the dosing unit 2 in order to modify the pre-established quantity of supplied product for each dose of product 20 to still have compliant containers.
  • the bubble sensor 20 detects in the doses of product 20 a volume of gas bubbles 21 lower than a predefined reference value, the variation of the weight of the containers 100 is due to the presence of gas bubbles 21 and not to a non-functioning or alteration in the functioning of the dosing unit 2 such as to require the processing and control unit 30 to regulate it.
  • the presence of gas bubbles 21 of limited size and volume in the product indeed is normally a temporary phenomenon which disappears during some dosing cycles of the dosing units 2.
  • the processing and control unit 30 should in fact implement a second regulation of the dosing unit 2 when gas bubbles 21 subsequently disappear thus determining an increase on the out-of-spec containers 100' produced.
  • the method and the filling machine of the invention thus allow to optimise the performances of the filling process carried out, in particular minimizing the number of out-of-spec containers 100' to be rejected during the production.
  • Optimizing the filling process is alternatively made possible by re-circulating the product, that is by inhibiting the filling of the containers 100 by conveying the doses of product 20 exiting from the dosing unit 2 towards the feed tank 3 when the bubble sensor 20 detects a volume of gas bubbles 21 in the doses of product 20 equal to or higher than a predefined reference value.
  • the presence of a high number of gas bubbles 21, indicates a temporary phenomenon generated within the product and destined to disappear over time by re-circulating the product until gas bubbles 21 disappear or their volume (by dose of product) reduces below the predefined reference value.
  • the method and the filling machine of the invention it is possible to check in a precise and accurate way the weight of all the containers 100 filled with doses of product 20, also verifying, thanks to the bubble sensor 10, they do not contain air, gas or foam bubbles or micro-bubbles.
  • the bubble sensor 10 of the ultrasound type allows to analyse in a quick and precise way the whole product flowing in the ducts before it is dosed, so as to detect out-of-spec containers 100', detected by the following weighing station 16.
  • the ultrasound sensor 10 allows to have information on the quality and performances of the dosing process, in order to enable the processing and control unit 30 to regulate or not to regulate the dosing unit 2 for modifying the pre-established quantity of supplied product for each dose of product 20.
  • the bubble sensor 10 able to measure the volume of gas bubbles 21 contained in a respective dose of product 20 delivered in a corresponding container 100, it is possible to calculate the effective volume of product without gas bubbles 21 of the dose of product 20 and, since the density of the product is known, to calculate the effective weight of the dose of product 20 delivered in the respective container 100.
  • Such effective weight that is calculated by the control and processing unit 30 by means of the bubble sensor 10 may be compared to the weight of the aforesaid container 100 measured by the weight sensor 22 of the weighing station 16 in order to supervise the correct functioning of the bubble sensor 10 and/or of the weight sensor 22.
  • the ultrasound sensors apart from being particularly small and cheap, are not at all influenced by perturbations and interferences due to vibrations, accelerations, stresses, flows, currents and/or air turbulences produced by the filling machine mechanisms and/or operating means and thus provide precise and reliable information on the presence of possible gas bubbles 21 in the doses of product 20 and on their volume.
  • the bubble sensor 10 may have an external structure (containing casing) that is washable and/or sterilisable and/or suitable to be used in a sterile chamber
  • the filling machine 50 of the invention may be provided with a containing booth that is closed and isolated from the external environment.
  • the method of claim 6 for dosing a product in liquid form, in particular a pharmaceutical product, in containers (100) comprises:
  • the method can use the filling machine and the dosing system 1 above described and shown in figure 4 .

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